I can hear them saying. All is cool. It’s “Morning in America” again, hearkening back to the time when Reagan crushed Carter to get elected, contrasting himself with Carter’s now prescient forseeing of the impact of the fossil-fuel economy, by telling us that “all is calm, all is bright” and taking down the solar panels Carter put on the roof Continue Reading
Every now and then , over the past 17 months (since early July of 2015), I think about the friend of 30 years that told me one day “Do not contact me again”. I haven’t spoken with him since. We had often had long conversations about many things: politics, religion, philosophy, you name it. The guy kept a fairly even, Continue Reading
Reformation, Eco-centric theological revolution, is a requirement for the Church now, after centuries of ignorance and then willful denial, of humankind’s overreach and excess. The denial is nothing less than the ultimate sin: the destruction of the habitat and ecosystem required for, first, the very emergence of the human species in the first place, and then the sustainability of that Continue Reading
“It is time for a prophetic turbo-charging of our religious traditions. Foremost is the need to expand beyond the self-focus of individual salvation or enlightenment to also include vital community concerns—notably, survival. The community now, of course, is the entire human family and the more-than-human Earth community. 2” — Michael Dowd, with a footnote nod to Thomas Berry Link to Continue Reading
My friend Larry shared on Facebook to an article , on which I posted this comment: Although it is certainly true that Trump is a uniquely crazy and even dangerous candidate, to diss the criticisms of Cliinton as suffering from “false equivalence” is itself a form of false equivalence. It is almost an underhanded way of ignoring the candidate’s real flaws Continue Reading
As the 500th year of the Reformation approaches (8 days away now), I have a few thoughts on the long journey ahead toward bringing the Climate Crisis to the top of the theological priorities of the Church for the crucial years ahead of us. This will determine whether or not the Church awakens to the catastrophic dangers we face as Continue Reading
On Nov. 1, 2016, the year that culminates in the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation will begin. So , that 500th year will bring many reflections and explorations and research from me at EcoEcclesia on the Eco-Reformation we need to expand, explore, and set as a vital mission of the Church for the years ahead. It’s “vital” to any Continue Reading
I’m in one of those super theological-techological nerdy places today (one of those “places” of the mind/spirit) where I have, as a result, a deep sense of exile from the church AND techno-nerdism, since the two “places” rarely ever meet in either of the “other’s” domain. This really started in full form when I began working in denominational Web departments Continue Reading
The awakening we need requires urgency translated down to the communities http://ow.ly/2wqV303hYWy
I will not say things like I’m about to say as “Comments” under a particular video or post in praise of something that I consider a moving and inspirational speech or sermon or prayer. First, I do not EXPECT that any good sermon or speech will have to say something about the Climate Crisis. There are simply too many issues Continue Reading
While I wholeheartedly agree with the dangers of a Trump presidency, I cannot (as I have said many times of late) avoid the nagging question of what is going to happen to us if we don’t work seriously toward asking very hard questions about what we have to change and work toward, ecologically, starting NOW. No, not by 2025, or Continue Reading
If we all became as shocked and appalled at the state of the Ecosystem as we are at the fact that Donald Trump has been nominated by a major political party, we just might begin to actually do something! (BTW, I absolutely DO think it’s appalling what this guy is communicating and representing. That’s OK , isn’t it? Can I Continue Reading
A little illustration I sketched out , addressing what is wrong with the “Lesser of two evils”, from an eco-perspective. (Notice also that the longer we drive straight up this road, the “sharper left” becomes the more direct route toward Ecological Civilization (this is an intended pun, in that the route toward ecological civilization will require increasingly radical shifts away Continue Reading
The previous post about the “Climate CRISIS denial of the left” is closely related to why I have been so insistent in my opposition to the widespread capitulation of those on the left to the “lesser of two evils” fallacy. Hillary Clinton embodies in both her past performance and present “claims” and “plans” that she just doesn’t get it. She Continue Reading
There is certainly a big difference between the outright Climate Change denial of the Right, and the “Climate CRISIS denial” of the Left. The former is simply capitulation to the economic status quo (which gets taught to them by “social osmosis” via their “auto-import” of GOP politics, which is motivated by the GOP’s dependence on Fossil fuel money. The Christian Continue Reading
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